Congrats to Rudy Huyn for passing the 3 million download mark in the Windows Phone Store

Since the Windows Phone community is still relatively small, we get the chance to know developers on a first name basis. One of those developers is Rudy Huyn, who has been behind some very popular apps on Windows Phone. There’s the Wikipedia app, which won Microsoft’s Next App Star contest. He also has some other fun apps like TVShow and recently released 6tag. He also reached a milestone in the Windows Phone Store. What happened?

Rudy has over a dozen apps in the Store, from titles like Wikipedia, 6Sec, 9Gag, Fuse and more. These apps are all together very popular and constantly top their respective section of the Store. He’s been around since the launch of Windows Phone 7. In fact, TVShow was built in a 30 hour period based off of community feedback.

Long story short, Rudy has been making some pretty handy apps on Windows Phone for a very long time. Earlier today he crossed the 3 million mark for number of times all his apps have been downloaded. That means the all of his apps combined have now been downloaded and installed over 3 million times. It was just earlier this year, around February, that Rudy had about 1.1 million downloads. So to that we say:

I can only access from this sites (wpc) link, going through store there is nothing (aus), also pocketnow says there is a paid version that disables ads and enables video download but mine was free and has no ads? Anyone else not able to find it in the store?

Ha! There is one! Believe it or not....search the store for "Rudy Huyn". It's not one of his apps, but supplies all the latest news about him and his apps...I came across this about a week ago.
Congrats Rudy!
A developer who listens, responds to emails, AND makes great apps. May he never switch sides.

3 million is IMO low for all his apps, but that's to do with the smallish marketshare of WP, but congrats nonetheless. Hopefully WP continues to grow in user base so more people can experience his awesome apps, and gives him more confidence in the platform to continue developing for it!

Yes well earned, onya Rudy and kudos to wpc for the recognition. Rudy your vine and instagram apps are superb and the WP community is very lucky to have such a talented developer supporting this platform. Onya

Congratulations Rudy. I downloaded your app that first day it became available and paid for the pro version and love it. It is because of you that I'm starting to post and upload pictures and videos, I wasn't a share your life person until now.

This is good. Its good for Rudy, who's putting energy for making WP better as a platform, against the odds. I hope he's making nice mone (well I paid to remove ads from day zero). It's also good for WP8 because it shows that brand-name apps are not necessary. I hope this news gets to the Instagram people and other stubborn developers (with Apple/Android money in pocket?) and they realize that they are the ones missing out on a growing, important market.
But yeah, you can't stop passionate and talented people who are willing to work. It's not about corporate politics, they can't control everything.

Hey, I've nearly 3 million downloads of all my apps to, currently I have 2.6 million downloads to be more precise:-D My game "Space Tube" made 1.95 million downloads by itself, so maybe there are a lot more developers with numbers like these?!?

Great news, Rudy! I use your TV Show app too keep up with all my shows, your 9Gag app helps me trade pictures with my teenage daughter, and I've enjoyed using your Wikipedia app a lot. Keep up the great work!

TV Show would be a fantastic app if it worked properly. I know it gets its show times from a tv database. But it would be nice if this guy could make a fix were u adjust the time and date of a particular show. I've emailed with no response back. Prime TV way better it will allow you to adjust the time of each show if incorrect. what's the point of a TV Show reminder app that has all the wrong times and dates. It amazes me, there so much junk in the windows app store that this app/dev are swoon worthy. Really how many times can u write about this guy, is this even news. I guess the next time he takes a crap I'll see a little mini article here about it.